Books by Gertrude Stein

Three Lives: Stories of The Good Anna, Melanctha and The Gentle Lena (New York: Grafton Press, 1909)

Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia (Florence, Italy: Privately printed, 1912).

Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms (New York: Claire Marie, 1914).

Have They Attacked Mary, He Giggled. (West Chester, Pa.: Printed by Horace F. Temple, 1917).

Geography and Plays (Boston: Four Seas, 1922).

The Making of Americans, Being A History of A Family's Progress (Paris: Contact Editions, 1925; New York: A. & C. Boni, 1926)

Descriptions of Literature (Englewood, N.J.: George Platt Lynes & Adlai Harbeck, 1926).

Composition as Explanation (London: Leonard & Virginia Wolf at the Hogarth Press, 1926).

A Book Concluding with As a Wife Has a Cow, A Love Story (Paris: Editions de la Galerie Simon, 1926; Barton, Millerton & Berlin: Something Else Press, 1973).

An Elucidation (Paris: transition, 1927).

A Village Are You Ready Yet Not Yet A Play in Four Acts (Paris: Editions de la Galerie Simon, 1928).

Useful Knowledge (New York: Payson & Clarke, 1928)

An Acquaintance with Description (London: Seizin Press, 1929).

Lucy Church Amiably (Paris: Plain Edition, 1930; New York: Something Else Press, 1969).

Dix Portraits, English text with French translations by Georges Hugnet and Virgil Thomson (Paris: Libraire Gallimard, 1930).

Before the Flowers of Friendship Faded Friendship Faded, Written on a Poem by Georges Hugnet (Paris: Plain Edition, 1931).

How to Write (Paris: Plain Edition, 1931; Barton: Something Else Press, 1973).

Operas and Plays (Paris: Plain Edition, 1932).

Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein with Two Shorter Stories (Paris: Plain Edition, 1933; Barton, Berlin & Millerton: Something Else Press, 1972).

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1933)

Four Saints in Three Acts, An Opera To Be Sung (New York: Random House, 1934).

Portraits and Prayers (New York: Random House, 1934).

Lectures in America (New York: Random House, 1935).

Narration: Four Lectures (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1935).

The Geographical History of America or The Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind (New York: Random House, 1936).

Is Dead (N. p.: Joyous Guard Press, 1937).

Everybody's Autobiography (New York: Random House, 1937)

A Wedding Bouquet, Ballet Music by Lord Berners, Words By Gertrude Stein (London: J. & W. Chester, 1938).

Picasso English trans. From Stein’s french version by Alice B. Toklas (New York: Scribners, 1939).

The World is Round (New York: William R. Scott, 1939)

Paris France (New York: Scribners, 1940).

What Are Masterpieces (California: Conference Press, 1940; expanded edition, New York: Pitman, 1970).

ida A Novel (New York: Random House, 1941).

The First Reader & Three Plays (Dublin & London: Maurice Fridberg, 1946; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948).

Wars I Have Seen (New York: Random House, 1945; enlarged edition, London: Batsford, 1945).

Brewsie and Willie (New York: Random House, 1946).

Selected Writings, edited by Carl Van Vechten (New York: Random House, 1946).

In Savoy, or Yes Is for a Very Young Man (A Play of the Resistance in France) (London: Pushkin, 1946).

Four in America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1947).

The Mother of Us All, by Stein and Virgil Thomson (New York: Music Press, 1947).

Blood on the Dining Room Floor (Pawlet, Vt.: Banyan Press, 1948).

Two (Hitherto Unpublished) Poems (New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1948).

Last Operas and Plays, ed. Van Vechten (New York & Toronto: Rinehart, 1949).

Things As They Are, A Novel in Three Parts by Gertrude Stein, Written in 1903 but Now Published for the First Time (Pawlet, Vt.: Banyan Press, 1950).

Two: Gertrude Stein and Her Brother and Other Early Portraits [1908-12], volume 1 of Unpublished Works of Gertrude Stein (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1951).

In a Garden, An Opera in One Act, libretto by Stein, music by Meyer Kupferman (New York: Mercury Music, 1951).

Mrs. Reynolds and Five Earlier Novelettes, volume 2 of Unpublished Works of Gertrude Stein (New Haven: Yale University, 1952).

Bee Time Vine and Other Pieces 1913-1927, volume 3 of Unpublished Works of Gertrude Stein (New Haven: Yale University, 1953).

As Fine As Melanctha (1914-1930), volume 4 of Unpublished Works of Gertrude Stein (New Haven: Yale University, 1954).

Absolutely Bob Brown, Or Bobbed Brown (Pawlet, Vt.: Addison M. Metcalf Collection, 1955).

Painted Lace and Other Pieces 1914-1937, volume 5 of Unpublished Works of Gertrude Stein (New Haven: Yale University, 1955).

Stanzas in Meditation and Other Poems [1929-1933], volume 6 of Unpublished Works of Gertrude Stein (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956).

Alphabets & Birthdays, volume 7 of Unpublished Works of Gertrude Stein (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957).

A Novel of Thank You, volume 8 of Unpublished Works of Gertrude Stein (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1958;

Gertrude Stein's America, ed. Gilbert A. Harrison (Washington, D.C.: Robert B. Luce, 1965).

Writings and Lectures 1911-1945, ed. Patricia Meyerowitz (London: Owen, 1967)

Lucretia Borgia, A Play (New York: Albondocani Press, 1968).

Motor Automatism, by Stein and Leon M. Solomons (New York: Phoenix Book Shop, 1969).

Selected Operas and Plays, ed. John Malcolm Brinnin (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1970).

Gertrude Stein on Picasso, ed. Edward Burns (New York: Liveright, 1970).

I Am Rose (New York: Mini-Books, 1971).

Fernhurst, Q.E.D., and Other Early Writings (New York: Liveright, 1971)

A Primer for the Gradual Understanding of Gertrude Stein, ed. Robert Bartlett Haas (Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1971).

Reflections on the Atomic Bomb, volume 1 of The Previously Uncollected Writings of Gertrude Stein, ed. Robert Haas (Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973).

Money (Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973).

How Writing is Written, volume 2 of The Previously Uncollected Writings of Gertrude Stein, ed. Robert Haas (Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974).

The Yale Gertrude Stein: Selections (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1980).

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